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Recent Examples of clergyman
Simeon Solomon’s portrait of a haloed clergyman, A Saint of the Eastern Church (1868), is accompanied by the fragrance of incense and wood, replicating the scented smoke wafting from the subject’s incense burner.
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Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
In 1598, friend and fellow clergyman Francesco Maria del Monte hosted a struggling artist at his family palazzo—a one Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 27 Nov. 2024
Now, Lubin works in marketing for a toy company and serves on the board of BOLD Justice, an advocacy group made up of local clergymen based in Broward.
—Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2024
Separately on Tuesday, Iran hanged Farhad Salimi, a Kurdish cleric who had spent 14 years behind bars over the killing of another clergyman, human rights groups reported.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2024
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Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
In 1598, friend and fellow clergyman Francesco Maria del Monte hosted a struggling artist at his family palazzo—a one Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 27 Nov. 2024
Now, Lubin works in marketing for a toy company and serves on the board of BOLD Justice, an advocacy group made up of local clergymen based in Broward.
—Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2024
Separately on Tuesday, Iran hanged Farhad Salimi, a Kurdish cleric who had spent 14 years behind bars over the killing of another clergyman, human rights groups reported.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clergyman
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In the beginning, Moore actually wanted to be a preacher.—
Anthony Mason,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2025
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Sports Rose Bowl live updates: Ohio State dominates, but Oregon scores late in first half 18 minutes ago If the Rose Bowl is a church, then Joel Klatt is a preacher.—
Sam Farmer,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Jan. 2025
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Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.—
Andrew Cockburn,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Aug. 2024
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If the dominant Spaniards of The Betrothed are unjust, self-interested, and pompous, few of the Italians — including churchmen — are any better.—
David Harsanyi,
National Review,
25 Jan. 2024
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Copyright law doesn’t protect general ideas — or incidents, characters and settings considered standard in the treatment of particular topics (think a priest in a movie about possession) — only the particular expression of those ideas.—
Winston Cho,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
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The ‘20s house guests mingle with priests and nuns from the house’s church days and the souls of her mother and father, who each died inside.—
Nicolas Rivero,
Miami Herald,
26 Jan. 2025
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That desire led him to the seminary in 1982, and, three years later, he was ordained as a deacon and priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut.—
Melanie Stetson Freeman,
The Christian Science Monitor,
21 Jan. 2025
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By the seventh century, deacons from seven of the oldest and most important churches of Rome served as special advisers to the popes.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
15 Jan. 2025
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President Trump said Tuesday the prayer service for his inauguration, when the reverend called on him to have mercy on transgender children and immigrant families, wasn’t too exciting.—
Alex Gangitano,
The Hill,
21 Jan. 2025
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The Pacific Palisades proper was founded in 1922 by Methodist reverend Charles H. Scott, who established a religious community there.—
Hadley Hall Meares,
Architectural Digest,
17 Jan. 2025
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Even into the modern period, naming a foreign cleric as cardinal was taken as a measure of the importance of their country in the Catholic world.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
15 Jan. 2025
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Iranian clerics who were willing to work with the Shah were undermined.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orlando Sentinel,
11 Jan. 2025
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The end result was a new brand of ecclesiastics and lay Catholics who felt comfortable detaching themselves from Franco’s regime, or even fighting it head-on in a variety of forums, including student movements, intellectual circles, unions, political parties, and the media.—
Victor Pérez-Díaz,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Dec. 2013
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Of all the precious goods accumulated by the rulers and ecclesiastics of late medieval Ethiopia, the most charged of all were books.—
Peter Brown,
The New York Review of Books,
24 Sep. 2020
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Here’s a list January 21, 2025 3:19 PM Read Next National US Catholic bishops condemn Trump immigration crackdown.—
Natalie Demaree,
Miami Herald,
29 Jan. 2025
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In 1980, the bishops of the United States began partnering with the federal government to carry out this service when Congress created the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP).—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
26 Jan. 2025
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“Clergyman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clergyman. Accessed 4 Feb. 2025.
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